Having time off from work is just one source of relief for the actress. The mother of 5-year-old daughter Alice also won’t have to worry anymore about being asked if she’s having a second child.

“I wish I had a better joke response,” Fey, 40, told PEOPLE before she revealed she was pregnant. “[I’d] usually just go, ‘I don’t know, I’m pretty old. Down to the wire! I need a good joke.’ ” – Dahvi Shira and Julie Jordan